"generation" in seven languages

Meaninggeneration

Spanish

generación

/xeneɾaˈθjon/

fem.learned

French

génération

/ʒeneʁasjɔ̃/

fem.learned

Italian

generazione

/dʒeneratˈtsjone/

fem.learned

Portuguese

geração

/ʒeɾaˈsɐ̃w/

fem.learned

Romanian

generație

/dʒeneˈratsie/

fem.learned

Catalan

generació

/ʒənəɾəsiˈo/

fem.learned

English

generation

/ˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/

from Latin/French · Old French generacion, from Latin

English → ItaliangenerationgenerazioneCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

GENERĀTIŌNEM‘a begetting; offspring’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

Learned in all four languages, so it matches syllable for syllable. The ending is the decoder: -tion, -ción, -tion, -zione.

English relatives: generate, general, gender, genre